Viola Bauer is with Dreams Take Flight, a charity that flies 100 Manitoba disadvantaged children to Disneyland every year.

She said that money comes from the group's volunteers. They get a percentage of the profits when they work at the concession stands during the games.

Typically, one game brings at least enough to send one child to Disneyland, and sometimes more.

This is a photo from a Dreams Take Flight trip in 2013. One hundred disadvantaged Winnipeg children, here in green t-shirts, go to Disneyland every year, funded by money raised at Winnipeg Blue Bombers games. The charity is worried about what a CFL strike would do to its work. (Dreams Take Flight)

Bauer said a strike or lockout could be disastrous.

"We wouldn't really know where to go or what to do," she said. "How would we be able to raise $11,000 without the Bombers? So we definitely don't want them to go on strike."

Other charities echo the concern about the impact of an interruption to the CFL season.

Wanda Luna, who paints whimsical scenes and characters in the bedrooms of children battling serious illness, is worried.

"I'm really scared. I really, really am," she said. "Like this is the last thing we needed to hear today."